Will

Remind me to come back and tell you about William's preference regarding his name.

I went today to pick William up from preschool and the teacher motioned me over. She finished up her conversation with another parent and then turned to me. She directed my attention to the art hanging on the classroom door. The bottom half of the door was filled with white construction paper pages. The pages had a black line running across it and every child in the class had attempted writing their names with varying degrees of success. She pointed at one and said: "Here's William's!" The paper was scrawled with the recognizable letters W I L L.

Apparently during instruction, William decided he was only going to write "Will" on his paper (he is very capable of writing all the letters). The teacher talked it over with his and discovered when he writes his name, he wants to only write Will. He still wants everyone to call him William. If someone else is writing out his name, he wants them to write WILLIAM. But, if he has to do it? He's only going to write Will.